"(The movie) is the story of my life, but it's not about me. It's about anybody who ever dreamed big and had someone tell them, 'No, you can't do it.' You can."

-- Chris Gardner

#Perseverance Quotes #Stories Quotes #Bigs Quotes

“She said that by introducing me to all these great things, Mary Elizabeth gained a â€œsuperior positionâ€ that she wouldnâ€™t need if she was confident about herself. She also said that people who try to control situations all the time are afraid that if they donâ€™t, nothing will work out the way they want.”
“I'm not very geeky. I'm quite homespun. I would say I'm more modern rustic than gadget-orientated. I like woollen things and log fires and whiskey”
“When animators weren't sleeping, they were drinking.”

Source : Joseph Barbera (1994). “My Life in 'Toons: From Flatbush to Bedrock in Under a Century”, Turner Pub
“Regardless of how me or this man right here or anybody else in this business get, when we walk on an airplane in first-class looking like this, we're gonna get searched.”
“...there is simply nothing so important to a people and its government as how many of them there are, whether their number is growing or declining, how they are distributed as between different ages, sexes, and different social classes and racial and ethnic groups, and again, which way these numbers are moving.”
“A government afraid of its citizens is a Democracy. Citizens afraid of government is tyranny!”
“I think people are complacent. But complacency is like any other metric. It's easy to measure where it is, but it's hard to tell how persistent it is. What causes really big bear markets is not just when people are overly complacent - it's when that complacency is sticky. As long as the skepticism can refresh itself, I think that the markets are still quite viable.”

Source : Source: uk.businessinsider.com
“Why is it that when we lose something big, we begin to lose everything else along with it?”

Source : Donna Freitas (2011). “The Survival Kit”, p.44, Macmillan

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